Andrew Blair, leader of the Engineers Without Borders trip to Guatemala, shares this post about the Missouri S&T team's journey to Guatemala.

So far in Guatemala everything is going alright. Yesterday (Sunday May 18th) we flew out without a hitch. After leaving St. Louis around 5:45AM we spent approximately 4 and a half hours on two different planes. After we got off the planes we had to spend a bit more than 4 hours driving from Guatemala City to Solola.

Once we arrived in Solola we were surprised by our in country contact Mario Corzo that we had a slightly better place to stay than we originally thought. Instead of staying on the floor of the school that we are working at we were told that we could stay in a small house at an agriculture school on the other side of the city of Guatemala. We are still sleeping on the floor, but now have showers and mattress pads to sleep on. It makes the shock of living in a different country a little less. After we showed up at the house, we went out and got dinner from a local restaurant. Then we were so tired we all went to bed at the late hour of 9:00PM so that we could wake up for the next days work at 6:00AM

Now it is about 2:00 in Guatemala and we took a small break after eating so that we could send this letter. We currently have three different teams working at the school. One team is taking some prefabricated stairs and connecting them from the ground to the second floor of the school. Another group is finishing off the little block laying that needs to be done, and also pouring concrete to form the pillars of the rooms. The third group is currently working on disinfecting and washing out one of the bathroom units. The bathroom group is also chiseling out a clogged pipe from under the concrete urinal so that it can be replaced.

That is about all that is going on currently. I´ll have more information on what is being worked on at a future date.